Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 10:18
I beheld Satan — That is, when ye went forth, I saw the kingdom of Satan, which was highly exalted, swiftly and suddenly cast down.
I beheld Satan — That is, when ye went forth, I saw the kingdom of Satan, which was highly exalted, swiftly and suddenly cast down.
Verse Luke 10:18. _I BEHELD SATAN_] Or, _Satan himself_, τον σαταναν, _the_ _very Satan_, the _supreme adversary_, falling as lightning, with the utmost _suddenness_, as a flash of lightning falls fr...
I BEHELD SATAN ... - “Satan” here denotes evidently the prince of the devils who had been cast out by the seventy disciples, for the discourse was respecting their power over evil spirits. “Lightning”...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Seventy Appointed. (Luke 10:1)_ 2. The Return of the Seventy and the True Rejoicing. (Luke 10:17) 3. Jesus Rejoiced in Spirit. (Luke 10:21) 4. The Question of the Lawyer. ...
RETURN OF THE SEVENTY. With Luke 10:17; cf. Luke 9:10 = Mark 6:30. The missioners report that the demons obey them in the name of Jesus. Jesus assents; He had watched Satan fall from heaven during the...
The Seventy returned with joy. "Lord, they said, "at your name the demons are subject to us." He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven. Look you--I have given you authority to wal...
LABOURERS FOR THE HARVEST (Luke 10:1-16)...
I BEHELD. Greek. _theoreo._ App-133. SATAN. Hebrew transliterated. the Adversary. 1 Samuel 29:4. _Diabolos is_ the more frequent term in the N.T. Both are in Revelation 12:9. FALL. having fallen....
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
_I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven_ Rather, I WAS observing Satan as lightning fallen from heaven, Isaiah 14:9-15. We find similar thoughts in John 16:11; John 12:31, "now shall the prince...
Luke 10:1-24. THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
ἘΘΕΏΡΟΥΝ ΤῸΝ ΣΑΤΑΝΑ͂Ν ὩΣ�. ‘I was observing Satan as lightning fallen from heaven,’ Isaiah 14:9-15. We find similar thoughts in John 16:11; John 12:31, “Now shall the prince of this world be cast out;...
VER 17. AND THE SEVENTY RETURNED AGAIN WITH JOY, SAYING, LORD, EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT TO US THROUGH YOUR NAME. 18. AND HE SAID TO THEM, I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN. 19. BEHOLD, I...
_THE WORK OF THE SEVENTY -- LUKE 10:1-20:_ The Lord sent out seventy of His followers to carry His message into every village. He said, "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye...
ΈΘΕΏΡΟΥΝ·ί״ιρ. _ind. act. от_ ΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G2334) видеть, наблюдать в качестве зрителя. _Impf._ указывает на постоянно повторяющееся действие. Каждое изгнание бесов было поражением сатаны (Arndt). ΆΣΤΡΑΠΉ...
LORD, EVEN THE DEVILS WERE SUBJECT UNTO US— From the manner in which the seventy speak of this latter exertion of their power, it would appear to have been what they did not expect when they set out;...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Preaching the Kingdom (Luke 10:1-24) 10 After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himsel...
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. AND HE SAID, I BEHOLD [ etheooroun (G2334 )] SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN. Since much of the force of this glorious state...
1 As the Lord was on His way to celebrate the festival of Ingathering, this,vas actually the time of harvest and He was comparing the physical to the spiritual state of the country. At harvest time th...
THE SEVENTY. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. MARTHA AND MARY 1-16. Choice and mission of the Seventy (peculiar to Lk). Another step in the organisation of the Church. The Seventy receive a subordinate commission,...
RETURN OF THE SEVENTY (peculiar to Lk)....
I BEHELD SATAN] Our Lord poetically compares Satan's discomfiture at the successful mission of the Seventy to his original fall from heaven. The only other allusion to the fall of Satan in the Gospels...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS SENDS OUT MORE *DISCIPLES 10:1-12 V1 After this, the *Lord chose 72 other *disciples and sent them out in pairs. He told them to go ahead of...
I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN. — The tense of the first Greek verb implies continuous action: _I was beholding Satan as he fell_... While they were working their Master had been followi...
ἐθεώρουν : their report was no news to Jesus. While they were working He saw Satan falling. There has been much discussion as to what is meant by this fall, and why it is referred to. It has been iden...
_Return of the Seventy_. No such report of the doings of the Twelve, and of their Master's congratulations, is given in any of the Gospels (_cf._ Mark 6:30-31). It seems as if Lk. attached more import...
THE SOURCES OF DEEPEST JOY Luke 10:17-24 How triumphant the return of the evangelist! With faces flushed with pride and hearts high with elation, they returned to the Master with their reports. What...
The mission of the seventy is recorded only by Luke. They went forth, sent by Jesus. They returned glad in the victories they had wrought in His name. He received them, and declared to them the whole...
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning (f) fall from heaven. (f) Paul writes that the location of the devil and his angels is in the air, as is found in (Ephesians 6:12), and he is said t...
I saw Satan as lightning, &c. Many expound it in this manner: I, who am from eternity, saw Satan with all the rebellious angels, as glorious as they were, fall from heaven; fear then, and tremble, tho...
CHAPTER 6. REPORT OF THE SEVENTY EVANGELISTS Luke 10:17-24. When our Savior was at Capernaum, in Galilee, about September first, He called these Seventy, and sent them out two by two, thus constituti...
2 _d. The Return: Luke 10:17-24_. Jesus had appointed a rendezvous for His disciples at a fixed place. From the word ὑπέστρεψαν, _they returned_ (Luke 10:17), it would even appear that the place was t...
3. _The Sending of the Seventy. Disciples: Luke 10:1-24_. Though Jesus proceeded slowly from city to city, and from village to village, He had but little time to devote to each place. It was therefore...
(17) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. (18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. (19) Behold,...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_A TRUE SENSE OF PROPORTION_ ‘And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.’ Luke 10:18 Let us seek honestly to imitate our Master, and look upon our world as He looked upon...
18._I beheld Satan _From one instance Christ leads them to the whole class; for he commanded his Gospel to be published for the very purpose of overturning Satan’s kingdom. (52) So then, while the dis...
The mission of the seventy follows in chapter 10, a mission important in its character for the development of the ways of God. This character is, in fact, different in some respects from that of the b...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... In order to abate their surprise, and reduce their transport of mind: I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN; meaning, that this was no news to him, nor any surprisin...
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Ver. 18. _Fall from heaven_] That is, from men's hearts, which he accounts his heaven; but is cast out by the mighty gospel....
_And the seventy returned_ The seventy disciples, having gone through the several parts of the country appointed them, returned and told their Master with great joy what they had done, _saying, Lord,...
I BEHELD SATAN-FALL FROM HEAVEN; the casting of Satan from heaven-probably with allusion to his original fall from heaven-means casting him out of his power over this world. Compare Revelation 12:7-9....
The return and report of the seventy:...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN....
THE SENDING OF SEVENTY OTHERS (vs.1-16) As we progress in this Gospel, earthly things tend to recede and heaven comes gradually more into view, specially following the transfiguration (ch.9:8-36) an...
17-24 All our victories over Satan, are obtained by power derived from Jesus Christ, and he must have all the praise. But let us beware of spiritual pride, which has been the destruction of many. Our...
Lightning comes suddenly, and with thunder. The thunder of the gospel brought down the devil as lightning: and indeed this is observable, the devil is so busy in no places where the gospel prevails, a...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians Darest thou, then, who didst fall "as lightning"[46] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III This Spirit, again, He did confer upon the Church, sending throughout...
Luke 10:18 And G1161 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 saw G2334 (G5707) Satan G4567 fall G4098 ...
‘And He said to them, “I beheld (or ‘I was beholding') Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.” ' Jesus replied that it was what they should expect, for He their Master had seen (or ‘was beholding') Sa...
THE SEVENTY (TWO) RETURN (10:17-20). The return of the disciples, rejoicing in their being able to cast out evil spirits in Jesus' name, leads on to Jesus confirmation of the defeat of Satan and of th...
Luke 10:18. I WAS BEHOLDING, i.e.. while you were thus exercising power over demons. Of course the vision was a spiritual one. SATAN, the personal prince of darkness. FALL AS LIGHTNING, _i.e.,_ su...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. Peculiar to Luke. The labors of this large body of disciples were brief, their mission temporary. The incident has no bearing upon questions of ecclesiastical position. Our...
I BEHELD SATAN FALLEN (εθεωρουν τον Σαταναν πεσοντα). Imperfect active (I was beholding) and second aorist (constative) active participle of πιπτω (notFALLEN , πεπτωκοτα, perfect active participl...
Luke 10:18 Looking back upon our Earthly Life. Throwing ourselves forward in the pure imagination of faith into the world to come, let us seek to look back and down upon this world as though we alrea...
Our Lord was about to send out seventy disciples to preach the gospel. He had already chosen his twelve apostles; now there must be seventy disciples, something like Moses had seventy elders to serve...
CONTENTS: The 70 sent out. Jesus denounces Judgment on cities. Parable of the good Samaritan. Martha and Mary entertain Jesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, 70 witnesses, Satan, lawyer, Martha, Mary. CONCLUSION...
Luke 10:1. _The Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two._ This was after the twelve had returned, and brought reports of the eager cries of the people for the word of life. Some o...
THE SEVENTY-TWO MEN CAME BACK IN GREAT JOY. Luke seems to emphasize the work of these seventy-two. How long they had been out on their mission is not known. EVEN THE DEMONS OBEYED US. Jesus gave a pro...
_The seventy returned_ THE SEVENTY I. COMMISSION OF THE SEVENTY. 1. They were commissioned of Christ. 2. They were commissioned of Christ to prepare the way before Him. 3. They received special d...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 10:18 I SAW SATAN FALL. It is not clear whether Jesus is speaking of a vision by which he saw something in the spiritual realm or if this is simply a declaration of what has been hap...
CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _After these things the Lord also._ Seventy-two. Vulgate. Dorotheus and others profess to give their names, but Eusebius declares that he knew of no written list of these seventy di...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 10:17. RETURNED.—The mission may not have occupied more than a few days: probably a time and place of rendezvous had been appointed. EVEN THE DEVILS.—Their success had exceeded...
EXPOSITION LUKE 10:1 _The mission of the seventy. The Lord_'_s words to them of instruction and direction and warning._ LUKE 10:1 AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY ALSO. That is...
Now in chapter 10, we read of this commissioning in the sending forth of the seventy, in the contrast to the twelve of chapter 9. After these things (Luke 10:1) Now He is on His way towards Jerusale...
1 John 3:8; Hebrews 2:14; John 12:31; John 16:11; Revelation 12:7;...
I beheld [ε θ ε ω ρ ο υ ν]. The verb denotes calm, intent, continuous contemplation of an object which remains before the spectator. So John 1:14, we beheld, implying that Jesus ' stay upon earth, tho...
THE SENDING FORTH OF THE SEVENTY Luke 10:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have here a most important theme, THE SENDING FORTH OF THE SEVENTY. There are some things in general which we feel led to suggest he...